The Bonesetter's Daughter A Novel [Paperback]

“The Bonesetter’s Daughterdramatically chronicles the tortured, devoted relationship between LuLing Young and her daughter Ruth. . . . A strong novel, filled with idiosyncratic, sympathetic characters, haunting images, historical complexity, significant contemporary themes, and suspenseful mystery.”
–Los Angeles Times

“TAN AT HER BEST . . . Rich and hauntingly forlorn . . . The writing is so exacting and unique in its detail.”
–San Francisco Chronicle

“For Tan, the true keeper of memory is language, and so the novel is layered with stories that have been written down–by mothers for their daughters, passing along secrets that cannot be said out loud but must not be forgotten.”
–TheNew York Times Book Review

“AMY TAN [HAS] DONE IT AGAIN. . . .The Bonesetter’s Daughtertells a compelling tale of family relationships; it layers and stirs themes of secrets, ambiguous meanings, cultural complexity and self-identity; and it resonates with metaphor and symbol.”
–The Denver Post
“AS COMPELLING AS TAN’S FIRST BESTSELLERTHE JOY LUCK CLUB. . . No one writes about mothers and daughters with more empathy than Amy Tan.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer

“[AN] ABSORBING TALE OF THE MOTHER-DAUGHTER BOND . . . THIS BOOK SING[S] WITH EMOTION AND INSIGHT.”
–People

“POIGNANT AND BITTERSWEET . . . A STORY OF SECRETS AND REVELATION, ESTRANGEMENT AND RECONCILIATION.”
–Rocky Mountain NewsAmy Tanis the author ofThe Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God’s Wife,The Hundred Secret Senses,and two children’s books,The Moon LadyandThe Chinese Siamese Cat, which has been adapted asSagwa, a PBS series for children. Tan was also the co-produlÓj